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Fear not the Swamp

Putin's atomic genitals are irrelevant

Feb 20, 2023
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Chit chat on Bankova (Kyiv. February 20, 2023) Photo c/o president.gov.ua

It was a beautiful blue cool clear day in Kyiv. The excitement of Biden's not-so-secret visit to Kyiv could be felt everywhere in the capital. Secret service agents have been scouting out the capital for weeks.

A day before Biden's arrival, Russia eerily staged large-scale strategic (nuclear) deterence training exercises and turned on its “Monolith” central command system, a gesture as costly as it is meaningless, because what will happen can’t be avoided.

As practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov noted on Telegram, “[For Putin,] there are more impressive methods of raising morale than a demonstration of his atomic balls.

Wouldn't it be easier for the Supreme Commander to respond symmetrically and fly at least to the Donbas and just walk around Donetsk? Maybe even in body armor?

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